Matsu

matsu English Matsu Islands thumb|Nangan Airport MATSU NANGAN AIRPORT Alternative forms en Ma-tsu Matzu also from _ Wade-Giles en Matsoo en Mazu Pinyin Etymology 1 From the en cmn-wadegiles - romanization of en cmn - pronunciation for *馬祖 Ma³-tsu³. Pronunciation en /ˈmæt.su/ hyperforeign en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-Matsu.wav Southern England mäʹdzo͞oen 1952 Matsu Island Leon E. Seltzer The Columbia Lippincott Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/ Morningside Heights, NY Columbia University Press 802473294 1168 https://archive.org/details/columbialippinco00selt/page/1168/ 1 en Proper noun - s en island group in the East China Sea;Matsu Island, in Encyclopædia Britannica: "Matsu Island, Chinese (Wade-Giles) Ma-tsu Tao or (Pinyin) Mazu Dao, also called Nankan, small island under the jurisdiction of Taiwan in the East China Sea," synonymous with Lienchiang County, Taiwan (ROC). from mid 20th c. en Lienchiang en https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.226178/ 1959 China Yearbook 1958-1959 Sampson C. Shen Taipei, Taiwan China Publishing Co. 99 Matsu IslandsLike the Kinmens, the Matsu Islands are part of Fukien Province. A political affairs commission is the administrative organ, supported by the Lienkiang Hsien Government. They form the northern anchor of the offshore defense line and seal the mouth of the Min River. en 1963 w:Dwight Eisenhower Mandate for Change 1953-1956 https://archive.org/details/mandateforchange00eise/ Garden City, New York w:Doubleday & Company 63-18447 64309101 461 https://archive.org/details/mandateforchange00eise/page/461/ The nineteen rocky, treeless Matsus, covering twelve square miles, blocked the port of Foochow on the Chinese mainland, just ten miles away, while the Quemoys, covering sixty square miles of land which supported several thousand farmers and fishermen, blocked the port of Amoy, only two miles away. en 22 May 1964 https://1991.history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v30/d31 Letter From the Charge to the Republic of China (Clough) to the Assistant Secretary of State for Far Eastern Affairs (Bundy) Ralph N. Clough Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State 7 October 2020 https://web.archive.org/web/20201012162333/https://1991.history.state.gov/historicaldocuments/frus1964-68v30/d31 12 October 2020 The Chinese Communist shelling of Matsu on May 16, which clearly seems to have been a reaction to GRC artillery fire from Matsu covering a raiding party launched from Matsu against Lienchiang (FCT 8622), caused me to give consideration to repeating to the GRC the warning we gave them last spring that they should not assume the US would assist the GRC should the Chicoms attack the smaller offshore islands in retaliation for raids mounted by the GRC from such islands. en 1997 w:Dale Brown w:Fatal Terrain https://archive.org/details/fatalterrain00dale/ Fiction w:HarperCollinsPublishers 0-00-649847-7 348 https://archive.org/details/fatalterrain00dale/page/348/ 'As best as we can figure without talking to President Lee,' Freeman said, 'Taiwan wanted to knock that carrier out of commission, then cripple Lang-Ch'i Army Base, which is the main staging point for China's invasion force for the Matsu Island chain.' en https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3720345 2019 Taiwan’s Matsu offers tourists free kayaking activities George Liao w:Taiwan News The athletic association is promoting the sport of kayaking in an effort to help Beigan Township develop coastal and maritime tourism by hiring Taiwan Kayak Association professionals to provide tourists free coaching on how to maneuver a kayak and enable themselves to enjoy the beautiful scenery of Matsu from the sea, according to Matsu Daily Matsu Daily (zh 馬祖日報). https://web.archive.org/web/20230425162144/https://www.taiwannews.com.tw/en/news/3720345 25 April 2023 en https://abcnews.go.com/International/taiwans-race-save-endangered-plant-species/story?id=73150496 September 21, 2020 Taiwan's race to save endangered plant species Ben Blanchard; Martin Quin Pollard w:ABC News In the forests and on remote offshore islands of Taiwan, a group of conservationists are racing to collect as many rare plant species as they can before they are lost to climate change and human encroachment.Overseen by the Dr. Cecilia Koo Botanic Conservation Centre, the plant hunters are scouring sub-tropical Taiwan for as many rare plant samples as they can find, from the rugged eastern coast around Taitung to Dongyin, in the Matsu archipelago. https://web.archive.org/web/20250513044413/https://abcnews.go.com/International/taiwans-race-save-endangered-plant-species/story?id=73150496 13 May 2025 en March 8, 2023 Huizhong Wu; Johnson Lai Taiwan suspects Chinese ships cut islands’ internet cables w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20230311220100/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/03/08/matsu-taiwan-internet-cables-cut-china/d322fcae-bd70-11ed-9350-7c5fccd598ad_story.html 11 March 2023 0190-8286 2269358 Business Wang Chung Ming, the head of Lienchiang County, as the Matsu islands are officially called, said he and the legislator from Matsu went to Taipei shortly after the internet broke down to ask for help, and was told they would get priority in any future internet backup plans. en en island county/Lienchiang c/Taiwan also known as Nangan. from late 19th c. en Nangan Nankan en January 21, 1875 Summary of News North-China Herald and Supreme Court & Consular Gazette https://archive.org/details/070n864-1nch1875/ Shanghai XIV 402 311405954 47 https://archive.org/details/070n864-1nch1875/page/47/ 2 journal March 8, 1875 SHANGHAI London and China Telegraph XVII 601 33239187 https://archive.org/details/londonchina-1875.03.08/ 186 https://archive.org/details/londonchina-1875.03.08/page/186/ 1, 2 The steamer Lee Yuen, when about 30 miles from Foochow, abreast of Fuhyan, on her passage from this port to Foochow, carried away the lignum vitæ bush in the stern tube. She was beached for one tide under the lee of Matsu Island, for temporary repairs, and then proceeded to Foochow, where she has gone into dock. en 22 June 1951 Chinese Communist Military Activities, East China https://archive.org/details/CIA-RDP82-00457R008000030007-7/ w:CIA 3 https://archive.org/details/CIA-RDP82-00457R008000030007-7/page/n2/ 19. On the evening of 11 June, Nationalist warships YUNG CH'UN (zh 永春) and CHENG AN (zh 正安) and the Nationalist gunboat HAI LI (zh 海利) engaged in battle with 2 Chinese Communist converted 200-ton gunboats, and a 1,400-ton armored motor junk in the Huangch'iwan (zh 黄岐湾) area, approximately 10 miles northwest of Matsu Island. The Nationalist warships had pursued the Chinese Communist vessels from the mouth of the Min River. The HAI LI joined the battle in the Huangch'iwan area. The Chinese Communist motor junk was destroyed and the gunboats were damaged. The coastal defense positions of the Chinese Communist Seacoast Defense Battalion (sic) with a total of 7 guns along Huangch'iwan were partially destroyed by the HAI LI when the battalion's guns fired on Nationalist vessels during the battle. en https://www.c-span.org/video/?33149-1/1960-presidential-candidates-debate 55:49 1960 OCTOBER 7, 1960 Presidential Candidates Debate US Vice President Richard M. Nixon w:C-SPAN Now I think as far as Quemoy and Matsu are concerned, that the question is not these two little pieces of real estate- they are unimportant. It isn't the few people who live on them- they are not too important. It's the principle involved. These two islands are in the area of freedom. The Kuomintang Nationalists have these two islands. We should not force our Nationalist allies to get off of them and give them to the Communist Party of China Communists. If we do that, we start a chain reaction, because the Communists aren't after Quemoy and Matsu, they're after Formosa. In my opinion, this is the same kind of woolly thinking that lead to disaster for America in Korea, I'm against it, I would never tolerate it as President of the United States, and I will hope that Senator John F. Kennedy Kennedy will change his mind if he should be elected. en https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1979-07-29_20_29/ December 18, 1977 Record crab catch for Matsu fisherman Free China Weekly XVIII 50 Taipei 4 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1977-12-18_18_50/page/n3/ A fisherman on the offshore island of Matsu caught more than 35,000 kilograms of sea crabs Dec. 13, breaking a record for one day which has stood for 10 years, military sources said.. . .Crabs are currently in season at Matsu, a few miles off shore from the Chinese Communist-held mainland and were previously being sold at NT$10 (about US$0.26) per kilogram.A spokesman for the Matsu Defense Command said Wang's surprise catch helped to bring the price down to NT$8 per kilogram. Even so, Wang made some NT$28,000 (US$778) on his boatload. en https://archive.org/details/memoirsofrichard00nixo/page/271 1978 0-446-93259-0 RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon w:Richard Nixon w:Simon & Schuster 271 I also hammered hard on Kennedy's shortsighted unwillingness to defend the offshore islands of Quemoy and Matsu, occupied by Chiang Kai-shek's forces. en https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/18/world/china-warns-us-to-keep-away-from-taiwan-strait.html 1996 China Warns U.S. to Keep Away From Taiwan Strait w:Patrick Tyler w:New York Times For the new round of Chinese war games beginning on Monday, China has declared a large part of the Taiwan Strait as a military exercise area and has warned international shipping and aviation to stay away. The prospect of the exercises prompted about 300 Taiwan citizens to leave small islands around Matsu, the strategic bastion off the Chinese port of Fuzhou that was to serve as the Nationalists' staging area to retake the mainland."We are leaving for Taiwan to escape disaster," said a schoolgirl from the island of Juguang, Lienchiang Tong Chu, near Matsu and just 10 nautical miles away from the area of the Chinese war games. Taiwan television stations carried film of the mini-evacuation, but also noted that a number of residents were choosing to stay in their homes. https://web.archive.org/web/20251107000929/https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/18/world/china-warns-us-to-keep-away-from-taiwan-strait.html 7 November 2025 en https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4atwuyf_sMY 42:09 2012 Listening In: JFK's Secret Tapes w:Thomas Oliphant w:John F. Kennedy Library Foundation I should add a story, you know in the South at that time, Governor Barnett was sort of known as a bit of a dim bulb. And two years before, during the presidential campaign, one of the flashpoints in the debates that fall involved two Nationalist Chinese islands just off the coast of China: Quemoy and Matsu. And right after this argument erupted in the campaign, Ross Barnett was out politicking one day and the reporters asked him, "Governor, what about Quemoy and Matsu?" And he looked around sort of lost and said to one of his aides, "Them those two fellers I put on the Fishing and Game Commission last year?" en March 8, 2023 Huizhong Wu; Johnson Lai Taiwan suspects Chinese ships cut islands’ internet cables w:The Washington Post https://web.archive.org/web/20230311220100/https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2023/03/08/matsu-taiwan-internet-cables-cut-china/d322fcae-bd70-11ed-9350-7c5fccd598ad_story.html 11 March 2023 0190-8286 2269358 Business Others living on Matsu, one of Taiwan’s outlying islands closer to neighboring China, had to struggle with paying electricity bills, making a doctor’s appointment or receiving a package. en en strait between Beigan and Nangan in Lienchiang County, Taiwan (ROC). en 1962 DeWitt S. Copp The Mudcats The Odd Day https://archive.org/details/oddday00copp w:William Morrow and Company 62-15763 923610553 60 https://archive.org/details/oddday00copp/page/60/ The one landing strip in the Matsus, and good for light aircraft only, was on the second largest island, Peikan. Between Nankan and Peikan lay the Matsu Straits, a twisted riptide-torn channel, boasting freak winds and bouldered shores. en Translations island group Chinese: Cantonese: yue 馬祖 maa5 zou2 Eastern Min: cdo 馬祖 Mā-cū Hokkien: nan-hbl 馬祖 Má-chó͘ Mandarin: cmn 馬祖 Mǎzǔ Japanese: ja Polish: pl Matsu n References Further reading Matsu, Mazu (includes islands, goddess, etc.) en 1998 Matsu Saul B. Cohen The Columbia Gazetteer of the World https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/ 2 New York Columbia University Press 0-231-11040-5 98-071262 164337564 1917 https://archive.org/details/columbiagazettee02cohe/page/1917/ 3 Etymology 2 From the en cmn-wadegiles - romanization of en cmn - 媽祖. Proper noun en Mazu (goddess). en April 18, 1982 Old festivals endure amid modern progress Free China Weekly https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1982-04-18_23_15/ XXII 15 Taipei 0016-0318 1786626 2 https://archive.org/details/sim_free-china-weekly_1982-04-18_23_15/page/n1/ Groups of schoolboys neatly dressed in white shorts and yellow cravats, a truck load of maidens in pink and green, another long silk banner and another carriage...it seems as if there are dozens of Matsus, each one accompanied by her retinue of standard bearers, musicians and heralds. en March 15, 1996 w:Jonathan Mirsky Taiwan President visits islanders to bolster morale w:The Times https://archive.org/details/NewsUK1996UKEnglish/Mar%2015%201996%2C%20The%20Times%2C%20%2365528%2C%20UK%20%28en%29/ 65,528 0140-0460 502384265 Overseas News 15 https://archive.org/details/NewsUK1996UKEnglish/Mar%2015%201996%2C%20The%20Times%2C%20%2365528%2C%20UK%20%28en%29/page/n14/ 1 Mr Lee descended on Penghu, one of the Pescadores, with a population of 90,000, in the afternoon, immediately after military jets had buzzed the airstrip to ensure his safety. Penghu lies in the middle of the Taiwan Strait.Addressing a large rally, he compared himself to the native goddess Matsu, who gave her life for others. "Your President should love and protect the people like her," he said. "Matsu will not abandon Penghu, and I will not either." en 2000 Chen Shui-Bian Learning and Transformation David J. Toman The Son of Taiwan: The Life of Chen Shui-Bian and His Dreams for Taiwan https://archive.org/details/sonoftaiwanlifeo0000chen/ Taiwan Publishing Co., Ltd. 957-97979-4-3 45640623 40 https://archive.org/details/sonoftaiwanlifeo0000chen/page/40/ I often think of Matsu, a figure in Taiwanese folk religions, who it is said guided the first Chinese settlers of Taiwan through the brutal seas at night and came to their rescue. With a benevolent heart, Matsu is like a mother.The two gods who accompany Matsu, one with eyes that can see 1000 li⁶ and the other with ears that can hear far over the horizon, represent empathy, observation, and feeling. Government should be like Matsu, equipped with acute powers of observation; see clearly to the bottom of issues, and know how to respond.There is a hierarchy among Matsu and her attendant gods, but they divide labor according to their strengths and work together in a truly perfect "partnership." en February 29, 2008 He Jianwei An etude to the island coast w:Beijing Today https://archive.org/details/BeijingTodayCN20080229/ 352 2095-9591 958634538 Travel China 21 https://archive.org/details/BeijingTodayCN20080229/page/n20/ 1, 2 Matsu's temple in Miaoli[...]Dong saw a statue of the fishermen’s deity Matsu as it makes an annual pilgrimage through the western seaboard counties.Matsu, goddess of the sea, protector of seafarers, and Taiwan’s preeminent folk deity, will be going on tour at the end of the third Chinese lunar month, as she does every year.Peishatun Matsu, who resides at the Gungtien Temple in Tunghsiao, Miaoli County, has the longest pilgrimage route.According to one version of the legend, Matsu saved her father, brother and a number of fishermen from drowning while she physically remained at home. en 31 December 2018 Paula Chao God of Earth welcomes the Matsu pilgrimage in person? https://web.archive.org/web/20230923220355/https://en.rti.org.tw/news/view/id/2000359 23 September 2023 https://en.rti.org.tw/news/view/id/2000359 w:Radio Taiwan International One of the most popular religious figures in Taiwan is Matsu, the Goddess of the Sea. The many temples dedicated in her honor will host massive pilgrimages every year in the spring. But one temple – located Tung-hsiao Township, Miaoli County -- has no set schedule or destination for its Matsu procession. In other words, organizers use divination to decide where Matsu wants to go and how long she wants to stay each year. en 10/25/2020 Matsu worship ceremony https://web.archive.org/web/20220928144433/https://focustaiwan.tw/photos/20201025ENP0002m 28 September 2022 w:Focus Taiwan Photos of the Day People in flowing robes and dressed up as guards worship a statue of the goddess Matsu, known as the protector of fishermen, in a ceremony in Nangan Township in the Matsu Islands on Sunday celebrating the anniversary of Matsu's ascension to heaven. en Further reading Matsu, Mazu (includes islands, goddess, etc.) Anagrams en amstu Maust musta sumat French fr: Pronunciation [u:ou] Proper noun fr island group c/Taiwan Matsu Japanese Romanization まつ